Beck’s Fusion Festival, Manchester

Das Pop's Bent Van Looy on stage at Beck's Fusions Festival on September 6 2008. Organisers went out around Leeds, Liverpool and Manchester weeks before the event taking photos and offered free tickets to people who could find themselves in their online photo galleries. Pic: Jane Stockdale/Gian Avingone

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Castlefield Arena, Manchester. The home of the 2008 Beck's Fusions festival from September 4-6. The site held 17,000 people over the Friday and Saturday nights. The arena was Britain's first urban heritage site. Pic: Jane Stockdale/Gian Avingone

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Bent Van Looy and Reinhard Vanbergen from Das Pop at Beck's Fusions festival, September 6 2008. The band played a mixture of old and new tracks, including highlight, 'Underground'. The duo are currently working on a new album with the guys behind Soulwax (David and Stephen Dewaele) which is expected to be released January 2009. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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Julian Hamilton of The Presets onstage at Beck's Fusions festival on Friday September 5 2008. The Sydney-based duo's new album 'Apocalypso' reached number one on their native chart and is still in the top 10 download chart five months after it's release. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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Hercules and Love Affair on stage at Beck's Fusions festival on September 5. The festival is unique as artists collaborate with musicians to produce one-off performances. Hercules and Love Affair teamed up with artist Michael Mayhew for their Friday night headline set. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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Hercules and Love Affair onstage at Castlefield Arena during their headline set at Beck's Fusions festival on Friday September 5. The band flew off to the Isle of Wight following their Beck's Fusions set to perform in the Big Top at Bestival on Saturday. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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Hercules and Love Affair's Kim Ann Foxman at CAstlefield ARena, Manchester for the band's headline set on Friday September 5 at
Beck's Fusions festival. The band only made their live debut in May 2008 and have since been on tour across Europe and North America. Their set at Bestival the following day was their last announced date in the UK this year. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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Massive Attack onstage at Beck's Fusions festival on September 6 in Castlefield Arena, Manchester. The band teamed up with United Visual Artists for their headline set as Beck's Fusions is all about mixing art and music together. Keri Elmsly from UVA said of the collaboration, 'Lots of our work involves bringing art and music together and as a collective we're firm believers in the intrinsic relationship the two have.' Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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The 9,000 strong crowd watching Massive Attack's headline set at Beck's Fusions festival on September 6 2008. The event was held at Castlefield Arena in Manchester. During their set the audience were encouraged to send text messages which appeared on a screen behind the band which had earlier been used to take a swipe at the 24-hour nature of the media. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

Midnight Juggernauts at Beck's Fusions festival 2008. The Melbourne-based electronica trio played the main stage on Saturday September 6 at Castlefield Arena, Manchester. The band were once described as 'David Bowie if his Berlin Trilogy was a collaboration with Kraftwerk and Faust.' And were personally invited to tour with Justice last year on their North American tour. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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Artist Michael Mayhew at Beck's Fusions festival on Friday September 5. The Manchester-based artist has been performing his artwork, live, for 20 years and teamed up with Hercules and Love Affair to put on a one-off performance at the Castlefield Arena event in Manchester. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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Sculptor, photographer and painter Peter Newman at Beck's Fusions festival, September 4-6 2008. Although the weekend event is ticketed, the doors to the Castlefield Arena venue in Manchester were open on the Thursday (September 4) to showcase a selection of art and DJ sets from the likes of Charlatans and Peter Newman himself. The artist also showcased his work to ticket-holders on Saturday (September 6). Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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Vincenzi Vendetta from Melbourne-based electronica outfit, Midnight Juggernauts on stage at Beck's Fusions festival at Castlefield Arena, Manchester on September 6. The band have since headed off to North America and Mexico to continue their world tour before coming back to the UK on September 25. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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A drummer providing the beats for Santogold's performance at this year's Beck's Fusions festival, held at Castlefield Arena, Manchester on September 4-6. The NME Award winner, real name Santi White, performed a number of tracks from her self-titled debut album including the crowd-pleaser L.E.S. Artistes. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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New Yorker Santogold on the main stage at Beck's Fusions festival on September 6. The singer performed with her usual mix of energy and eclecticism playing singles 'L.E.S. Artistes', 'Creator' and 'Lights Out' to the rain-soaked crowd at the Castlefield Arena event in Manchester. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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A reveller at the Beck's Fusions festival at Castlefields Arena, Manchester on September 4-6. The weekend fuses together art and music over three days with musicians and artists collaborating to produce one off performances to a 9,000-people-a-night-strong crowd. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone

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Zevs Visual Kidknap at Beck's Fusions festival at Castlefield Arena, Manchester, September 4-6 2008. The French street artist famous for his graffiti and tagging in Paris showcased his work to the 9,000 strong crowd on the Saturday (September 6). His name comes from a train, Zeus, which once nearly ran him over. Pic: Jane Stockdale/ Gian Avingone